476 – ʿAli ibn Abi Maryam narrated to me, from one of his teachers, from Yusuf ibn Asbat, who said: Zurʿah said to me, “When the merest trifle of this world appears greater in someone’s eyes than the grandest matter of the Hereafter, how can he hope that anything good will be done for him—either in this life or in the life to come?”